I was wondering if you were aware of any "family only" ninjutsu teachings. Teachings passed down from father to son or uncle to nephew etc with the teaching of outsiders (non-family members) a strict no-no ??

I have an older japanese friend who claims he has been trained in ninpo taijutsu by his father and it is an off-branch to the togakure from about 300yrs ago.

I do bujinkan and he should me some 1stdan techniques similar to bujinkan but his techniques with faster variations that involved more punching strikes and more circular motions.

In your research have you ever come across this? Is father recently passed away so he has now moved back to japan to work on the family farm so i can't quiz him anymore.

Any information you have regarding "family -only" ninjutsu splintering from the togakure about 200-300years ago would be helpful. Or can you point me in the right direction.

hey - a long while back there was a forum thread about me and my center..mostly ignorant dibble as usual, but you had asked about the Jujitsu instructor that was an instructor there. Someone else also asked why I got rid of him.

You seemed to be one of the more intelligent blokes, doing a bit of googling and background research before posting - so I thought I'd send you this link so you could see for yourself why I might have been Leary of Mr Carter.